eli5:if there’s an infinite number of triangles in a circle starting from Centrepoint to circumference then why cant we make up 2 circles in the real world from a single circle?

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eli5:if there’s an infinite number of triangles in a circle starting from Centrepoint to circumference then why cant we make up 2 circles in the real world from a single circle?

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I think the answer is that you can! The circle really does have a (theoretical) infinite number of segments or slices, sort of triangular. So you could take every alternate one and make another circle from it.

Clearly if you were able to see the edge of a drawn circle close-up, real close-up, you would see longer flats, a little like a many sided polygon rather that a circle.

But your question really addresses a bigger one… Is there such a thing as analogue, or is EVERYTHING digital, or particle, or quanta based? If the edge of a circle is not smooth and curved at every single level of magnification then you could argue that an infinite (not possible in reality, because there is the concept of the smallest distance) number of sides to that polygon exist, therefore you surely can take every alternate slice as many times as you like).